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US Authorities Were Dragnet-Spying On Billions Of American Phone Calls For Decades
Indiscriminate spying was the DEA’s blunt force weapon of choice in its “War on Drugs”. The Drug Enforcement Agency and the Justice Department tracked billions of Americans’ phone calls, even people not suspected of crimes, for decades — and it looks like collateral damage wasn’t much of a concern.
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The Encryption Tools The NSA Still Can’t Crack Revealed In New Leaks
Most of us — at least the cynical ones — assume that the NSA has probably beaten most of the encryption technologies out there. But a new report from Der Spiegel that draws on documents from Edward Snowden’s archive shows that this simply isn’t true. There are some tools that the NSA, as recently as…
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New Aussie Security Laws Would Jail Journalists For Reporting On Snowden-Style Leaks
It’s no secret that the Government wants to give Australian spooks more power to catch bad guys. With plans like data retention and enhanced surveillance powers still on the table, it isn’t just crims who should be afraid of Johnny Law these days: journalists now have reason to fear as well. To crack down on…
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The British Government Just Set A Dangerous Precedent For Online Spying
Today, the British government revealed its justification for surveilling its citizens’ every move on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. UK citizens communicating using the aforementioned services are considered to be using “external communications”, as the companies are not based in the UK. It’s a distinction with staggering implications.